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since Sept. 3, 2025
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Lu Min is an award-winning Chinese novelist, best known for such works as Dinner for Six, This Love Could Not Be Delivered and The Man Who Could Not Die, which have been translated into a dozen languages, bringing her perceptive eye and an authentic Chinese perspective to readers around the world. …

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Alia Ibrahim is a leading Lebanese journalist and media innovator, known for her work at The Daily Star, The Washington Post, and Al Arabiya, and as the co-founder and CEO of Daraj Media, an award-winning independent Arabic news platform recognized for its investigative reporting and regional impac…
Gaspard Koenig is one of France’s most original public intellectuals — a philosopher, novelist, founder of the GenerationLibre think tank, and even a one-time presidential candidate. When he isn’t writing or debating ideas, Koenig can often be found tending to his garden and horses on a small farm …
Shi Yang Shi is a Chinese-Italian actor, translator, and author, best known for his roles in Italian films and television, including Go Go Tales, Tradita, and Enea, as well as his appearances on the satirical TV show Le Iene. Born in Ji'nan, China, and raised in Italy from the age of 11, he has bec…
Diariata N’Diaye is a French slam poet and activist who has become one of France’s leading figures in the battle against sexism and sexual violence. Speaking with Paris Calling, the self-described “artivist” retraces how her dual French-Senegalese upbringing shaped her personality, including a for…
Karol Noroña is an Ecuadorian investigative journalist from Quito whose reporting on organized crime, prison massacres, and state collusion forced her into exile in 2023 after repeated death threats from members of the Lobos cartel. She returned to her hometown in June 2024 to present her book Ause…
Chantal Lamarre is a well-known Canadian comedian, actor, and TV presenter, known best for her place in Quebecois television programs like Infoman and Les Trois Mousquetaires, radio shows like ICI Première, and most recently in her live show Steppettes et Cornemuse. Lamarre talks to Paris Calling a…
This is Paris Calling, where each week we encounter a notable person from somewhere around the world. We are breaking new ground by bringing non-English interviews into English with the use of AI tools that allow us to translate our guest’s words, without changing their voice.  Founded in 2011, ⁠⁠W…
Franceso Zizola is an acclaimed Italian photojournalist, having won major awards, including World Press Photo of the Year in 1997, along with more than a dozen awards from the World Press Photo Foundation. His latest book Diaries is a journey through some of his most celebrated images over a 40-yea…
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